Person

Trollope, David Hugh (Hugh) (1925 - 2011)

AO FTSE

Born
9 March 1925
Swansea, Wales
Died
8 March 2011
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Civil engineer and Geotechnical Engineer

Summary

Hugh Trollope, AO FIEAust, was a pioneer of geomechanics teaching and research in Australia. He developed a novel procedure of cyclic pre-loading which was used on the piles of the Tasman Bridge at Hobart to solve the problem of excessive deflection under load. Following a series of devastating cyclones in tropical Australia in the early 1970s, he drove the establishment of a successful research program in wind engineering, and then the Cyclone Structural Testing Station in November 1977.

The Australian Geomechanics Society commemorates his work by awarding the D H Trollope Medal to the author of an outstanding paper on either theoretical or applied geomechanics.

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Chronology

1944 - 1946
Career position - Research Assistant, Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough
1946
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Wales
1946 - 1947
Career position - Municipal Engineer, Country Borough of Swansea
1947 - 1950
Career position - Assistant Lecturer, Department of Municipal Engineering, University of Manchester
1950
Life event - Immigrated to Victoria
1950 - 1964
Career position - Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne
1951
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1956
Education - Doctor of Philosphy (PhD), University of Melbourne [The first PhD thesis on a soil mechanics or geomechanical topic to an Australian university]
1964
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1964 - 1987
Career position - Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering, University College of Townsville [which became James Cook University in 1970]
1966
Education - Doctor of Engineering (DEng), University of Queensland
1967
Award - Warren Memorial Prize 1966, Institution of Engineers Australia
1968
Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
1970 - 1972
Career position - Foundation Chairman, Australian Geomechanics Society
1973 - 1977
Career position - Pro Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University of Northern Queensland
1977 - 1987
Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University of Northern Queensland
1983 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1984
Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1983]
1988
Award - Doctor of Engineering (honoris causa), James Cook University
1989
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for service to engineering, particularly in the field of geomechanics
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in civil engineering

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  • Institution of Engineers Australia, Forty-eighth Annual Report [1967] (1968), 16 pp. 'Prizes - Warren Memorial Prize (1966 Award) to Professor D H Trollope, MSc PhD MIEAust, Mr McD Freeman, MBE MIEAust, and Mr G M Peck, BE MEng AMIEAust, for their paper entitled "Tasman Bridge Foundations"', p.3. Details

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See also

  • 'The Australian Geomechanics Society', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 42 (1-2) (1970), N8-N10. Details
  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details

Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 31 May 2023

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